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Pararchidendron pruinosum

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Family Fabaceae

Taxonomy: Pararchidendron pruinosum (Benth.) I.C.Nielsen

Synonyms: 11 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Abarema sapindoides Kosterm. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Abarema sapindoides N.C.W.Beadle, O.D.Evans & Carolin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Abarema sapindoides S.W.L.Jacobs & J.Pickard (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia pruinosa Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia sapindoides Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Acacia sapindoides Sweet (taxonomic synonym)
  • Albizia pruinosa (Benth.) F.Muell. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Feuilleea pruinosa (Benth.) Kuntze (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pithecellobium pruinosum Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Pithecellobium sapindoides Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Pithecolobium pruinosum Benth. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld, NSW

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NSW Flora, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: Benwell_2024 (4), Collette_2021 (1), Cooper_2013 (23), Gross_2005 (4), Ilic_2000 (3), Kanowski_2000 (22), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kooyman_2011 (14), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (19), RadfordSmith_2024 (42), Sjostrom_2006 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (3), eFLOWER_Dun_2022 (22). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 87 traits from 173 records in 17 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (2); white_cream (2); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; eFLOWER_Dun_2022]
  • sex_type (categorical): hermaphrodite (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 110 mm (80-160 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 14 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): legume (6) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; RadfordSmith_2024; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_dehiscence (categorical): dehiscent (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; Sjostrom_2006]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1); yellow (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 21990.1 mm2 (1140-55447.2 mm2) [sources: Kanowski_2000; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaflet_area (numerical): 1071 mm2 (798.17-1386.18 mm2) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 57.5 mm (20-110 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 25.75 mm (13-50 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 75.98 mg (51.16-113.46 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 4.5 cm (2-7 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 52.92 g/m2 (39.79-75.5 g/m2) [sources: Kanowski_2000; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.39 g/g (0.37-0.41 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): compound (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (2); tree (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): prostrate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1); evergreen (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • flowering_time (categorical): ynnnnnnnnyyy (2); ynnnnnnnyyyy (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • seedbank_location (categorical): none (1) [sources: Benwell_2024]
  • seed_dormancy_class (categorical): physical_dormancy (1) [sources: Collette_2021]
nutrient and stable isotope
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 44.74 mg (33.49-56 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
  • seed_length (numerical): 6 mm (4-8 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_width (numerical): 5.5 mm (5-6 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
  • seed_shape (categorical): ellipsoid (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
stem morphology
  • wood_density (numerical): 0.51 mg/mm3 (0.42-0.58 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; RadfordSmith_2024]
whole plant morphology
  • plant_height (numerical): 17.5 m (15-20 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; NHNSW_2023]

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RadfordSmith_20241542J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
Cooper_20131123W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kanowski_20002222J. Kanowski. “Ecological determinants of the distribution and abundance of the folivorous marsupials endemic to the rainforests of the Atherton uplands, north Queensland.”. PhD. James Cook University, Townsville, 1999.
eFLOWER_Dun_20221922L. Dun and H. Sauquet. “Unpublished: Floral traits for GAP taxa, University of New South Wales, Australia”. 2022.
NHNSW_20231419N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Kooyman_20111014R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
Benwell_202444A. Benwell. “Fire responses of flora in a sclerophyll-rainforest vegetation complex in the Nightcap Range, North Coast, New South Wales”. Australian Journal of Botany 72.1 (2024). Ed. by D. Williams. ISSN: 1444-9862. doi: 10.1071/bt23049.
Gross_200544C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Sjostrom_200644A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Ilic_200013J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
NHNSW_202233N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Wright_200033I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Collette_202111J. C. Collette and M. K. J. Ooi. “Distribution of seed dormancy classes across a fire-prone continent: effects of rainfall seasonality and temperature”. Annals of Botany 127.5 (2021), pp. 613-620. doi: 10.1093/aob/mcaa203.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.